Spinning-ring.



No. 761,086. PATENTED MAY 31, 1904.

I L. MBLLETT.

. SPINNING RING.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 18. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

Patented May 31, 1904.

LEMUEL MELLETT, OF SOMERVILL NINE-SIXTEENTHS TO EDWARD CHUSETTS, JOSEPH F. FLANAG E, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF GLINES, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSA- AN, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS,

AND MILES B. MODONNELL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPINNING-RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 761,086, dated May 31, 1904.

Application filed May 18, 1903. Serial No. 157,550. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEMUEL MELLETT, a citizen of the United States, residing in Somerville, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Spinning-Rings, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to a novel ring for spinning and twisting machines, and has for its object to provide a ring with which the speed of the traveler may be greatly increased. For this purpose I employ a ring of non-magnetic material, preferably glass, upon which the traveler, of iron or steel, is mounted to re- "volve thereon, and a magnetic ring-holder which serves to maintain the traveler in a practically fixed position with relation to the ring and out of contact therewith as the said traveler is revolved about the ring by the yarn being wound upon the bobbin or cop. These and other features of this invention will be pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a sufiicient portion of a spinning frame or machine provided with a ring embodying this invention to enable it to be understood; Fig. 2, a plan view, on an enlarged scale, of the ring shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, a section on the line 3 3, Fig. 2.

Referring to Fig. 1, a represents the frame, 6 the ring-rail, c the guide or wire board, d the spindle, e the whirl, and f the bobbin, of a spinning-machine which may be of any suitable or usual construction.

In accordance with this invention the ringrail 6 supports a magnetic ring-holder, which may be made as herein shown, and consists of an annular steel ring g, provided with polepieces h c', which form an annular groove 7' for the reception of an annular ring is, of nonusua'l manner.

magnetic material and preferably glass, the said ring being substantially T- shaped in cross-section. The head of the ring 72 is en gaged by a steel or iron traveler m, through which the yarn l passes to the bobbin fin the In the present instance the ring k is represented as secured to the holder by cement n or other suitable material. The

traveler fits the ring loosely, so as to have a free movement around the same, and as the said traveler is moved around the ring in the operation of the machine, and especially when moving at great speed, it is held out of contact'with the ring by the attraction of the magnetic ring-holder, which resists the tendency of the yarn to move the traveler laterally into frictional engagement with the ring, thereby enabling the traveler to be revolved at a speed largely in excess of that now obtained in spinning machines as now constructed and known to me.

The non-magnetic ring may be provided with a centrally-raised portion or bead 0, which serves to hold the traveler out of contact with the magnet y when at rest.

The magnetic ring-holder g may be a permanent magnet, as hereili represented, or it may be electromagnetic.

I claim 1. The combination with a non-magnetic ring, of a magnetic holder therefor, and a traveler mounted on said ring and responsive to the attractive influence of the magnetic holder, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a non-magnetic ring, of a traveler mounted to revolve thereon. and a magnet to keep the said traveler out of contact with the ring while in operation, substantially as described.

3. In a machine of the character described, a revoluble traveler and an annular magnet cooperating with said traveler to resist centrifugal action and thereby maintain said traveler in a circular path as it is revolved, In testimony whereoflhave signed my name substantially as described. to this specification in the presence of two sub- 4. The combination with a non-magnetic scribing Witnesses. ring, of a traveler mounted to revolve thereon, LEMUEL MELLETT.

and a magnet acting to resist the centrifugal -Witnesses: action of the thread upon the traveler, sub- JAs. H. CHURCHILL, stantially as described. J. MURPHY. 

